Ranjit Shah
Partner
GAJA Capital

Ranjit is a Partner at Gaja Capital Partners, an India focused private equity firm. The firm follows a sector-agnostic investment strategy aimed at exceptional growth situations in the Indian mid-market.

He has over 23 years of prior experience in corporate management including 5 years as Managing Director and CEO of BPL Telecom. His earlier experience as CFO in the export sector included managing one of the large corporate FX treasury operations in India. Ranjit’s prior experience includes Investment Banking with an international bank focused on IPO’s & debt syndications and in Management Consulting for some of India’s leading companies. His entrepreneurial experience includes co-founding a finance company providing asset finance for professionals, which he successfully exited through a public listing and corporate sale. He has also made VC / PE investments in technology and engineering services. He has an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.

He is active with Michigan’s alumni and business school activities and is also a member of their Alumni Admissions Committee. He has spoken at several forums including CII / Exim Bank (on Export Competitiveness), Reserve Bank of India (on Commodity Hedging), Symbiosis Management Institute (Keynote Speaker - on Entrepreneurship).